Improvement in farm-fence



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VERANOUS CALKINS, OF VARYSBURG, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND'JOHN W. JOHNSON, OF THE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No.` 86,133datetl Janna-ry 26, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaking part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, VEnANoUs GALKINs, of Varysburg, in the county of Wyoming, and State of New York, have invented a certain neW and useful Improvement'in FarmfFence; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification,` in which- Figure I is a perspective view ofthe saine.

The nature of this invention consists in the combination, with'the wires, uprights, and horizontal rails,

of stakes D, for the attachment ofthe wires, and for giving to the uprights (which, when the stakes are used, are not iXedin the ground) lateral strength -and stability, as will hereinafter be more fully described.

Letters of like naine and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

Aepresents a pair of upright rails, and

B, the horizontal rails of a common rail-fence.

The. former are staked, at an inclination toward each other, and are crossed in the usual manner, and the contiguous ends of the latter ineet between the upright rails, as in the common fence.

C represents a wire, which is attached to and connects the fence-rails as follows:

Commeneing with a loop at the top, connecting the contiguous ends of the top rail with the upright rails, A, at their point of intersection, the wire is twisted into a rope, extending perpendiculnrly nearly down to the ground. At intermediate points the twist of' the rope is opened and Wound around the contiguous ends of a pair ofthe horizontal rails B, and froni the hoff tom rail the Wire is passed horizontally to each side, and its ends, C', connected to the upright rails, as shown in the drawings.

The object of this invention is to econornize rails in the construction of a common rail-fence, by enlarging the interstices-between the horizontal rails. It is intended that the expense of the wire will be less than one-half of' the amount saved in rails for any given length of fence.

W'here it is not practicable to drive the upright rails into the ground, as is frequently done, a stake, D, ,may be driven by the side of each upright rail, at a proper angle, and the ends ofthe wire may be wound around both the rail and stake in Aa manner to hld the structure firmly in place.

Then `the uprightsA are. not driveninto the grounl, the fence is portable, it being .onlynecessary to withdraw the stakes D when it is desirable to remove the Tence.

I ain aware ofthe patent granted to L. E. Lockling, dated October 16, 1866, for a fence in which the horizontal rails are connected together and suspended by wires from metallic uprights which are permanently xed in the ground or rock, but this I do not claim, as it forms no part of my invention; but- What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l The inclined crossed uprights A, Wires G C', and stakes D, in combination with the horizontal rails B,

lapped together and supported in the loops of the sus.

pending-wires G, all arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

VERANOUS OALKDTS.

Witnesses:

Flinn. W. SCOTT, B. H. Munn-LE. 

